DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF CONCEPTUAL MOBILE BELT CONVEYOR MATERIAL HANDLING SYSTEM

Abstract

During the construction of slabs in civil structure, the continuous supply of construction material is needed. This is usually done with the help of labors, sometimes; a temporary material lift is fabricated for this. Both this process is labor intensive and costly. In this project we are undertaking design of material handling system which can supply construction material continuously to the top end of the construction site, and also to ensure the mobility of this system.

For more than 200 years, belt conveyors are in use in manyindustries, especially in mining, cement, steel and agriculturalindustries. Belt conveyors have had an increasing importance anduse during the past century. Today, they have the significant role in mining, cement factories, grain manipulation, etc. By time,applications of transporting materials from one point to anotherextended its boundaries; by requiring longer transfer distances,much faster speeds and much higher capacities. While expectationsfrom belt conveyors are growing bigger, problems to be solvedgrew in parallel.

Hence there is a need to design a mobile conveyor material handling system, so we will design the mobile belt conveyor material handling system to automate this process, to save time and minimize the human effort.  In the proposed work we will be generatingoptimized CAD model considering the on field work parameters. Also, Finite element Analysis will be done on the generated CAD model using Hypermesh to know the actual stresses, and forces that will generate in the Mobile belt conveyor material handling system to optimize and improve the life of the design. .